I'm curious though, are these bans temporary or are you no longer allowed to post on the forum until you can straighten things out with the mod to get unbanned? If they're permanent, that would seem harsh just for some (I assume in your case would be) light trolling.

Oh well, look at it this way. you can stop wasting your time discussing things in relation to Towns now.

It's a 24 hour ban, but that's not important. The important is that they banned me, i.e. for all means and purposes the moderator declared that I was being abusive. I need this explained to me in detail, because I don't understand it.

Basically, I see there are only two things they could've banned me for. The first one my remark "no matter what kind of community we have here, it means very little if the developers themselves don't want to be involved in it", i.e. being generally pessimistic (or realistic). And the second is the fact that I pointed out the hypocricy of a person asking for positive responses only while he was indirectly attacking people and complaining about community attitudes.

The only message I got was the one I posted above, that I was "instigating" arguments. HOLY HELL I THINK THAT'S CALLED CONVERSATION! When others start threatening to hack the forums, digging up dirt from message history, being outright nasty etc it's somehow MY fault because I was having a conversation. WTF?

I want an explanation, but I can't contact them anymore now that I'm banned (cant login for 24h).

Well, I suppose if you know another way to contact them you could try that but it would probably be much simpler and less annoying for them if you just waited till the 24hr ban was up to ask. Your situation could be far worse than having to wait 24hrs (i suppose it's 23hrs now if you came straight here) for an explanation to something that happened on a forum so at least there's that.

You'll have your answer eventually, even if it ends up being a lackluster "I don't remember" kind of answer. At least if that happens you'll know you probably didn't do anything THAT bad and just got caught in the crossfire banning the other people.

I sen message to Towns support email address (Xavi answers that), and I sent PM on Dwelvers forum (burningpet answers that) ... but I have no idea how to contact tom directly through other means and Tom made the call to ban me so he's the only one that can really answer me.

This means the ban will probably have expired before I get the response. And if they shrug it off after that because I'm no longer banned and thus shouldn't care, this will get ugly. I will not tolerate it.

Let it go, man. They're going to have to apologise... or what? You were grabbed when they threw a net over the entire thing, don't let a temporary ban become a permanent one.

I think he meant "if they don't have an explanation they'll have to apologize" since he specifically stated it would get ugle if they tried to shrug it off. That's fair enough since mods should really only use their authority when it's absolutely necessary and they should be able to explain it to those they use it on.

That being said, in the same position I think i'd just drop it and not care. That's comming from someone that hasn't cared enough to even make an account for their forums to begin with though so it probably doesn't mean much...

edit: after seeing the other thread you posted here, yeah, i understand the ban. suck it up and deal with it like a big boy.

I'm posting here because I have no chance to appeal my ban or even ask about the specific reasons, like which post of mine was too much for the moderator. There's nothing I can do whatsoever until the ban is over, and afterwards the moderator is probably going to disregard the issue since I'm no longer banned.

Not sure if the chilling effect is intentional, it sure feels like I'm no longer welcome on the forums.